Music DVD Creation

[fletch]

Hi ,

I am currently trying to create a audio dvd with reasonable results.

I am making a menu for each audio track , on the menu connections, I am setting the time out to go to the next menu. On the menu screen, I am setting the timeout limit to 0 seconds. I use an album bitmap for the menu picture.Then I'm just chaining each menu to the next which works great. The only problem I have is I would like to be able to manually advance track by track with my remote control.. How do I acheieve this ?

I searched the forum and found mention of using invisible auto action buttons that somehow will allow the user to advance or cycle back thru the tracks using the left/right button on the dvd remote.. Can someone please explain how this works in plain english ? I would really appreciate it !

Thanks

Fletch

[Sequoyan]

Creating DVD-Audio is something completely different then creating DVD-Video.

Sonic has an app just for authoring DVD-Audio discs. I think it's called Sonic DVD-Audio.

While you can create a DVD-Video disc with a 'normal' authoring app that contains only audio, it is not a DVD-Audio disc that you're creating and would not work in most DVD-Audio players (at least not in the way you are probably imagining).

- The Sequoyan

[fletch]

Hi Sequoyan,

OK, let me re-phrase that then :) I am trying to create a DVD with audio content and still images - I do not mean DVD AUDIO as in an audio dvd that will only play in a DVD AUDIO player.. I just want to be able to put 10-15 albums onto DVD (using AC3) and play them back in a stand alone dvd player and maybe have the album covers or lyrics visible on the television.

Thanks for your reply

Fletch

[SiC]

You can create this "DVD with Audio" just like creating/authoring a normal DVD Video (basically the same thing). First encode all your audio into AC3 with your favorite audio app. Next import all your audio files into a DVD Video authoring program. Now for dropping the audio into the track, you can go about this in 3 different ways.

(1) Import all your audio files into one single track and set chapter points for the end of each song.

(2) Import each individual songs into seperate tracks (correct me if I'm wrong but I think 99 tracks is the limit so you can only have 99 songs this way.

(3) Do a mixture of 1 & 2. Say like for the first track have a bunch of songs from the same artist. On the next track a bunch of songs from another artist, and so on. This way you wont have one huge track or a whole bunch of tracks.

After you finish which ever method you go with, grab some still pictures and drop it into the video portion of the track and set the duration for each picture (typical 5 seconds). Author a menu and create the DVD image & burn. That's all!

[auenf]

Originally posted by fletch
I searched the forum and found mention of using invisible auto action buttons that somehow will allow the user to advance or cycle back thru the tracks using the left/right button on the dvd remote.. Can someone please explain how this works in plain english ? I would really appreciate it !

Thanks

Fletch

just create a button anywhere and set all the sliders for it to 0, and set an auto action to it, and setup the navigation for it for how you want and that should be it.

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